The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-16
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Many Sources.
ILLINOIS.
:fedon & Co, boot and shoe dealers of
Chicago, failed recently for $1,000
Tommy DOMAIN and his wife were convict
ed in Chicago recently and sentenced to a
year IN the penitentiary for obliging their
sixteen-y ear-old daughter to steal The
jury, out of sympathy, did not include the
girl III the verdict
Mrs Ben Anderson, the young wife of a
weil-to-do farmer at Dixon Springs. COM
mitted suicide recently by cutting her
throat with razor. Domestic trouble was
the cause
William Crow and John Davidson, of Car
rolton, engaged in fight recently, using a
pistol and knife, and both were killed.
The State Board of Agriculture has COM
pieted arrangements for holding Congress
slonal Farmers Institutes at the following
places: Pontiac, January 10, IL; Lincoln,
January IL, Is; Edwardsville, January IL,
Is; Whitehall, January 10, 20; Colorado
january "a, %; Carbonate, January 26.
Y; Peor a January 81, February l; Joliet.
February 2, 3; Freeport February z, S.;
Dixon, February 8, 10; Shelbyville, -Februa-
~ IA, 10; Albion, February Is. II; Mon
mouth, 81, %; Havana, February %. "a:
Woodstock, February %, %, and Danville,
March /, g
The various ministers of Yer1nilion County
have formed an association for the purpose
OF prosecuting all parties who do business
on Sunday not in compliance with the law
David Billman, young man of Johnson
frxx-z 1IaT,7 49,
lightning and killed while driving some
COWS to pasture the other evening during a
heavy thunderstorm The horse he rode
was also killed
Johanna OBrien, Chicago servant girl.
started a ire in the kitchen stove the other
day, and poured kerosene oil upon it to help
it along The usual result followed
The general offices of the Lake. Erie &
Western railway have been removed from
Bloomington to Indianapolis, Ind.
Reports recently received by the Live
Stock Commissioners show that the condi-
tion of cattle in the State was little below
the average for this season of the year
Horses and sheep were doing we'll The
ravages of hog cholera were causing great
losses to farmers in many portions of the
State
The thirteenth annual meeting of the
Millers' State Association was held at Spring
field recently. +
At the fifth annual session in Chicago re-
Gently of the National Guard Association of
Illinois the following officers were elected:
President, Brigadier-General J. n Reece,
Springfield; Vice-President, Brigadier-G Gen
eral Charles Fitz-Simons, Chicago; Second
ToJ1 ID
Joliet; Recording Secretary, Colonel Fred
c. Pierce, Rockford; Corresponding Secre-
tary, Captain c. V. Jaquith, Paris; Treas
urer, Major 3. J. Sill, Aurora; Chaplain,
Rev. G. R. Van Horn, Rockford
IOWA.
At Des Moines a few evenings ago the
Loyal Legion of Iowa held it's annual re-
union and banquet A large number of
members were present
At Waterloo few days ago William
Mundafrom was sentenced to imprisonm emit
for life for the murder of his uncle. Chris
tian Hemme boy.
The Theater Comique, at Sioux City, was
destroyed by fire a few days ago. Loss,
81, 600 This theater was formerly run by
Harry Leavitt, the conspirator, who turned
States evidence in the Haddock murder
case
A criminal action was begun at Waterloo
under the Prohibitory Liquor law against a
drug firm that had been indicted for main
tanning nuisance because they sold intoxi-
eating liquors. The Judge discharged the
defendants, holding that'the only method
OF proceeding against a druggist convicted
OF keeping Intoxicating liquors for sale was
by civil action for damages.
Sam Anderson was run over and cut to
pieces by switch-engine at Council Bluffs
the other morning. He had been in the en-
ploy of the Northwestern road for twelve
years.
A Council Bluffs secondhand dealer was
fined $l08 few days ago for selling re-
volvers to four little boys. The law against
selling guns, revolvers or toy-pistols to
children is very plain and severe.
Owing to the inability of the chief of po-
lice at Burlington and his subordinates to
agree, the latter have been discharged.
The Standard Lumber Company of Du-
buque has closed up for the winter on ac-
count of the incendiary fires in that city
The date of the State fair has been fixed
for September 3 to s. 1888.
The State boasts of 953 women who own
farms, and only eighteen of them are mort
gagged
Track-laying ON the Cherokee & Dakota
line is progressing at the rate of two miles
per day.
The buildings at Sioux City occupied by
A NJ Haley & Sons, plumbers, gas filters
and iron-workers, and Anthony's trunk fac
wn ,ad NV fro no OIL
ing together with the stocks, machinery,
etc. Total loss, $4,000. -
The next Democratic State convention
will be held in Dubuque, probably in May.
Lewis Igo, a Republican, was defeated
for Senator from Warren County in the re-
cent election by one vote; but his wife the
other day presented him with a boy, adding
one to family of seven boys and five girls,
making thirteen, all living.
There are ffty-four cities in the State
that have population of over twenty five
hundred
The jury in the Rainsbarger case at Mar
shalltown recently found the defendant
guilty of murder in the first degree, and
fixed the penalty at Imprisonment for life
A collision occurred the other day be-
tween a passenger and a freight train at
Percival, by which two tramps were killed.
WISCONSIN,.
Grant County farmers are this year MAX
ing up for the shortness of feed for their
stock by thrashing their corn in the same
manner in which they thrash smaller grains.
Lars Georgeson, of Berlin, was cutting
down tree the other day when one of it's
rotten limbs fell, striking Lars on the head
and killing him Instantly.
A post-office has been established at Up
ham, Wood County.
A $4,000 courthouse is to be erected
in Waushara County in the near future, and
Buffalo County will follow suit with a $780,
600 building.
A branch of the Wisconsin Anti-Prohibi-
ton Association has been organized at Port
Washington
The Vernon County supervisors have
voted to bond the county for: So 900, and
thus secure the means to build an insane
asylum in which one hundred! may be cared
for
The treasury of Ashland County is suffer
ing from a scarcity OF funds.